Marie Incontrera 220 72nd street, Apt A4 Brooklyn, NY 11209 917-952-2900 marie.incontrera@gmail.com Composer/Arranger: Eco-Music Big Band: Jazz Stravinsky 2016 arranger and pianist for jazz reimagining of Igor Stravinsky s L Histoire Du Soldat with new translation by actor John Palladino Budapest Symphony Orchestra: 2016 commission for new concerto for trombone and orchestra, God s Trombones Five Borough Music Festival: 20 th Anniversary Songbook 2016 commission for new art song, Greenwood Cemetery Eco-Music Big Band: Angela's Ring 2016 conductor, bandleader, and composer; new opera on the European debt crisis Eco-Music Big Band: BAMcafe Next Wave Festival 9/2015 conductor, bandleader, and composer; workshop premiere of opera MR MYSTERY: THE RETURN OF SUN RA TO SAVE PLANET EARTH! By Fred Ho and Marie Incontrera (Composers) and Quincy Troupe (Librettist) with the Eco-Music Big Band Eco-Music Big Band: Joe's Pub 4/2015 commission by Eric Stokes Fund entitled Seven Generations MOIRAE Ensemble: Barnard College performance 2/2015 commission of song cycle Do No Harm for two voices, violin and cello Eco-Music Big Band: Joe's Pub 1/2015 arrangement of Frank Zappa's My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama Eco-Music Big Band: ShapeShifter Lab 8/2014 new work To Sing You Down for celebration of Fred Ho's birthday North American New Opera Works: Cincinnati, OH 6/2014 Midwest premiere of opera At the Other Side of the Earth Eco-Music Big Band: Vermont and NYC tour 2/2014
collaborative commission and composition with Fred Ho on suite for 5-stop tour through Vermont and NYC Beth Morrison Productions/VisionIntoArt 21c liederabend: BAM Harvey 11/2013 commission and workshop performance of scene from opera No Shirts, No Skirts, No Service, with libretto by Royce Vavrek Fresh Fruit Festival: The Wild Project 7/2013 performance of opera At the Other Side of the Earth, 2013 winner of BEST MUSICAL PRODUCTION Brooklyn Art Song Society: Galapagos Art Space 5/2013 commission and performance of evening-length, longform song cycle, Quagmires and the Known Knowns, for three voices and piano Green Monster Big Band: Red Rooster Harlem 2/2013 new co-arrangement with Fred Ho, Iron Man Meets the Black Dog Meets David Taylor Barnard College: 10/2012 concert performance with piano of opera At the Other Side of the Earth Riot Girl Opera (self produced): LGBT Center NYC 5/2012&WOW Cafe Theatre 10/2012 self-production of opera At the Other Side of the Earth in workshop performance (LGBT Center) and professional performance run (WOW Cafe Theatre) Young New Yorkers Chorus: St. Mary's Church 12/2011 competition finalist; commission and performance of Ring Out, Wild Bells Remarkable Theater Brigade: Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall 10/2011 commission and performance of 10 minute opera Little Orphant Annie Vocalessence: Saint Paul, MN 2/2011 a winner of the American Composers Forum/Vocalessence Essentially Choral readings. Public reading and recording of Little Orphant Annie Remarkable Theater Brigade: Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall 10/2010 commission and performance of 10 minute opera Picture Perfect
Conductor/Band Leader/Music Director (Pianist): Aliens and Dragons: 10/2016-present Pianist and co-director for transcultural duo with Italian baritone saxophonist, Marco Colonna SHERO MACHINE: 7/2016-present Pianist and co-director for cross-genre collaborative piano duo with Sissi Liu Sundance Institute at MASS Moca: 12/2014 Music direction of workshop performance of HATUEY, a new klezmer/afro- Cuban jazz opera by Frank London Eco-Music Big Band: 2/2014-present Composer, conductor/bandleader and pianist for all projects including regular performances at Joe s Pub at the Public Theater, Roulette, BAMcafe, and others Green Monster Big Band: 2/2013-1/2015 BAM Cafe Live 10/2014: conductor and band leader for public memorial for F red Ho; works by Fred Ho and Cal Massey Recording 10/2013: conductor, arranger, and band leader for Green Monster Big Band recording (international release date for 2017) BAM Harvey Theater 10/2013: conductor, music director and band leader for Fred Ho's martial arts ballet Sweet Science Suite Red Rooster Ginny's Supper Club 2/2013: guest conductor and co-music director for professional concert Riot Girl Opera: 2012-2013 Conductor, music director, and rehearsal pianist for productions of At the Other Side of the Earth 1.Fresh Fruit Festival 7/2013 2.WOW Cafe Theatre 10/2012 3.Barnard College 10/2012 4.LGBT Center of New York 5/2012 Education: CUNY Brooklyn College 9/2002-6/2006 Bachelor of Arts, Biology 9/2003-6/2007 Credit Equivalent of Bachelor of Arts, Music 9/2007-6/2009
Master of Music, Music Composition; Composition Studies with Tania Leon and Jason Eckardt Awards/Fellowships: ASCAP Foundation Fred Ho Award 2016 Awarded to a composer whose work defies boundary, genre, and style. American Composers Orchestra, Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute 2015 intensive institute on writing orchestra within the jazz language University of Connecticut, Dodd Center: Fred Ho Fellowship 2014-2015 research, presentation, and manuscript creation for Music of the Oppressed: scholarly work on the topic of musical language of big band as vehicle for social justice and change. (with concentration on works by Fred Ho, Cal Massey, and Sun Ra, among others) Professional Development: New York Youth Symphony's Making Score Program: 9/2007-5/2008 Instructor: Derek Bermel Orchestration Reading with American Composers Orchestra Choral Performance at Symphony Space Thalia Hall Masterclass: 4/2008 Opera scene with Marvin Hamlisch John Duffy Composers Institute: 6/2010 Opera scene workshop and performance Fred Ho, private composition study: 6/2010-3/2014 Private composition lessons highscore Festival, Pavia, Italy: 7/2011 Masterclass with Christopher Theofanidis Performances of string quartet, piano work, and solo bass work in Pavia, Italy Discography: Parma Records Limbic Breath, recorded by Boston String Quartet (2012 release) Olmeca Shiva, hip hop track recorded by Olmeca with the Eco-Music Big Band (2015
release) Underground Brass SCAT, on album titled XENOPHOBIA (release in 2015) Eco-Music Big Band COLORS OF RESISTANCE (2015 release) REBEL SPIRITS (2016 release) ANGELA S RING (2017 release) Green Monster Big Band Sum Homo Indomitus! Release TBA